Life is an adventure - A blog about traveling and friends

First impression of Barcelona was pretty bad, the lesson learned was take care of your things or they will be stolen. On the way to the city from the airport a girl gets her phone stolen, it happened really quickly. There were many weird looking people on the metro and at a stop one older guy leaves the metro and then another guy who was standing next to a girl tells her that she just had her phone stolen. Her expression went from desperation to total sadness, it was kind of sad to see that. To be honest, after this event we didn’t carry anything else with us except the phone and some money in the phone case. You never know when you get your things stolen especially in a city like Barcelona, where things like this happen all the time according to people living there. After a long trip to get to Barcelona, we spent the first evening with my cousin and her friends, so we didn’t do much. The second day, we explored a bit the area next to the Arc de Triomph and the park nearby ...

The Graz Urwald is a nice park where you can find trees from all over the world, of course the main attraction of the park is the sequoia and the bamboo forest. D really wanted to go there after he heard about this park, and we’ve been postponing our trip there mainly because of laziness. The day was beautiful, sunny and very warm, despite the last couple of days have been cold, and since I’ve been using my bike more often, I thought a bike trip to the Graz Urwald would be a great idea to spend the Sunday. Also, I wanted to test my new camera, which I bought from one of my friends, so some photos are taken by D with my Nikon D300s and the rest are taken with my new Canon 40D with a 50mm lens. To be honest, is not very easy to find the entrance to the park. It is somewhere between two houses and there is no board or any information telling you that this is where the park starts. On the other hand, if you bike a bit further you will find another sequoia but is inside som...